2012 is Now on Everybody's Mind
The release of Roland Emmerich's film, 2012, has popularized this date on a planetary scale. What does it mean? Where did it come from? As awareness of 2012 becomes an event of mass consciousness, we begin to sense something of the greatest magnitude, a veritable world shift. The ripples from this shift are already creating waves washing up on the shores of the old consciousness. What is behind December 21, 2012, and what does it really augur?
It is generally known that this date is related to the Mayan calendar and the Mayan prophecies. How did the Maya come to this date, and what do their prophecies say about it? The Maya, whose civilization reached its heights in Central America and Mexico between AD 435 and 830, were expert mathematicians with a unique calendar system. How did they come to be operating with a sophisticated sense of time far beyond anything known even today?
In The Mayan Factor, Path beyond Technology (1987), I concluded that the primary intention of the Mayan calendar system was not to measure time but to record the harmonic calibrations of a galactic synchronization beam, 5,125 years or 5200 tun (360-day cycles) in duration. According to the time science of the ancient Maya, a great moment of transformation awaits us at 2012, when we pass out of that beam. For humanity this beam constitutes the wave harmonic of history. 5,125 years in diameter, this beam commenced 13 August B.C. 3113, a date marked by the Mayan calendar long count as 13.0.0.0.0, 4 Ahau. This precise date 13.0.0.0.0, 4 Ahau will occur again on December 21, 2012. Exactly 1,872,000 days will have passed, a cycle of 13 baktuns of 144,000 days each.
This interval, B.C. 3113 - A.D. 2012, comprises the totality of history as we know it -- from the First Dynasty of Egypt to the Twin Towers, hence wave harmonic of history. During this cycle, humanity has gone from a tribal creature just learning how to live in cities, to being a full-blown planetary organism. In this process, humanity learned how to mechanize time. The mechanization of time created an unconscious mental field in which the human systematically separated itself from nature for the purpose of creating a vast industrialized order, the technosphere -- a sphere of artificial time cast over the biosphere. Since 1618, the human species has been living in its own artificial time, apart from the rest of the biosphere that continues to operate in the natural cycles. The dissonance between artificial and natural time has brought about the present crisis -- and pushed mankind toward a new condition of being.
The conclusion of the cycle in A.D. 2012 bodes a return to natural time and an evolutionary upgrading of planetary life. A resonant frequency phase shift will usher us into the brilliance of galactic-solar-planetary evolution. We shall pass not only into a post-historic, but a post-human, or super human phase of our evolution. In fact, the entire 5,125-year cycle -- hardly an instant of geological time -- is but a mutative phase. With this phase complete, a new evolutionary stage begins. This is known as the noosphere, literally, the mental sheathe of the planet, the mind of the Earth, where we think and act as a single planetary organism -- a new race of bio-solar telepaths. With the advent of planetary consciousness will come not destruction, but at long last, universal peace.
Jose Arguelles, planetary whole systems anthropologist, received his Ph.D. in Art History and Aesthetics from the University of Chicago in 1969. He has taught at Princeton University, University of California, Evergreen State College, San Francisco State University, San Francisco Institute of Art, the Naropa Institute, the University of Colorado, and The Union Graduate School. Jose first introduced the date December 21, 2012 into mass consciousness with The Mayan Factor. The initiator of the Harmonic Convergence global peace meditation of 1987, Arguelles is also the founder of the annual Whole Earth Festival (1970) in California, and one of the originators of the Earth Day concept. More information on Jose and his work is available here.
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This is an excellent, succinct piece.
Beautiful,Jose
The 2012 Transit Of Venus...
This Article Comes From Kathryn Cassidy's Cosmic Blogspot.
Cassidy is a Master Astrologer, with a knowledge of ancient mystery teachings...and secret wisdom.
Ancient mystery teachings are a body of knowledge that has been passed down from the Egyptian Dynasties....The level of knowledge one has access to is dependent upon the inner level of 'knowing' (Gnosis) one is able to attain and demonstrate.
We must remember, that the Maya, were Master Astronomers.... IF what we have been led to believe about them is correct....and it seems to be.....
We know from the Dresden Codex, that the ancient Maya based many of their astronomical calculations around the planet Venus....so is it a coincidence that in 2012, there will be a rare Transit of Venus across the face of the Sun? ..Something that repeats only every 243years... and over the course of time...MARKS OUT IT'S OWN PATTERN...that of a --PENTAGRAM.- A pentagram is a Five-Pointed Star.
A transit of Venus across the Sun takes place when the planet Venus passes directly between the Sun and Earth, obscuring a small portion of the solar disk. During a transit, Venus can be seen from Earth as a small black disk moving across the face of the Sun. The duration of such transits is usually measured in hours (the transit of 2004 lasted six hours). A transit is similar to a solar eclipse by the Moon, but, although the diameter of Venus is almost 4 times that of the Moon, Venus appears smaller because it is much farther away from Earth. Before the space age, observations of transits of Venus helped scientists use the parallax method to calculate the distance between the Sun and the Earth.
Transits of Venus are among the rarest of predictable astronomical phenomena and currently occur in a pattern that repeats every 243 years.
I will just note here that the reason the Pentagram is widely used in occult/esoteric practice is because of it's affiliation with Venus...The Light Bringer...The Bringer of The Dawn..
The Venus table of Ammisaduqa, a 7th Century cuneiform tablet, recovered from the library of Nineveh, offers evidence that this pattern (the pentagram of Venus) was known to Babylonian astrologers at least as far back as the 17th century B.C.
Knowledge of the cycles of the planets: Venus and other heavenly bodies, and their portents and effects on the terrestrial plane, is very important knowledge, and certainly was to the Maya.
Isis was the divine personification of the planet Venus, and this early mythology is the basis for much of the wisdom teachings today.
So, in conclusion then...it is my opinion (Kathryn Cassidy's) that while many cycles will be ending...and beginning..over the next few years..bringing about great change...the true esoteric meaning of 2012 is about Venus energy...and a 'Return To Love'...and An 'Illumination of Humankind'..
The end of one World is indeed nigh...but the beginning of a new World is waiting to be Born.
** there are also some other signs and symbols involved with this analysis of this 2012 Transit of Venus. ...on her blogspot cosmiccipher.com.***
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as above...so below
-- a new race of bio-solar telepaths
I appreciate the work that Dr. Arguelles has done to bring attention to the 2012 subject. I am not quite sure that this article clarifies to us how the changes happen when one switches from technological time to natural though. That said it is enough to provoke engagement with that idea and thus act as a catalyst. Nobody can do all the leg work for us after all. I like that it ends with us as bio-solar telepaths. That is something I can resonate with and certainly fits my own projections for the post 2012 world. Well for the part of the population that bothers to make an effort regarding possible positive direction changes. Will listed with interest to his overall view at the upcoming '2012 Tipping Point The Prophets Conference' this January.
Bruce Fenton
http://2012Rising.com
1618
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Re: 1618
My best guess is this:
"September 18 – Beginning of the 13th Baktun in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, the final phase of the Great Cycle."
yes
I hope you're right, but ...
I hope you're right, but do you have a concession/postponement speech prepared if 2013 finds us in much the same apparent situation as before?
The End of Time
I have enjoyed the thoughts you have shared since The Transformative Vision, and I even found your Ph.D. thesis in my university library. Thank you for your writings.
My guess is that "a return to natural time" would mean, not only a return to the rhythms of nature, but ceasing to live in the past and the future--the end of mental chatter. To be fully in the present moment is the method, if not the aim, of the Perennial Philosophy.
This dovetails with the notions that Eckhart Tolle has been popularizing now, through Oprah. As the past and the future are abandoned, the present moment expands.
People often say that being in physical proximity to someone who is fully present and aware makes it easier to be present oneself. So I have long imagined that a qualitative shift in global consciousness might arrive as simply as the quiet reaching a critical mass of fully-present people.
It would be the beginning of a superhuman era. And with the old structures crumbling, even as they overreach, my sense of pleasurable anticipation grows.
Time is money?
Whole Earth Festival
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The Happening